The Coronavirus Update

All from this series

  • Democratizing work for the people and the planet

    An op-ed that was cosigned by more than 5,000 researchers from universities around the globe, issued an urgent plea: We need to transform the way we work.

    Man holding a protest sign from car.
  • ‘The lesson is to never forget’

    Q&A with Olga Jonas, an expert in managing the risks of pandemics, on the lessons governments can learn from the coronavirus pandemic.

    Emergency hospital.
  • The mother of invention

    COVID-19 pandemic spurs the creation of new, remote teaching methods at Harvard Medical School.

    Typing on a laptop with stethoscope on desk.
  • Reopening research operations

    The Gazette spoke to Laboratory Reopening Planning Committee head Rick McCullough to learn more about Harvard’s decision to shut down its labs, the effects that had on research, and how the University plans to ensure a safe reopening.

    Harvard's Longwood Medical area.
  • What pandemic dreams may come

    Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychology Deirdre Barrett created an online survey to collect dreams of people during the pandemic.

    Plague doctor illustration.
  • Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next

    Pardis Sabeti’s lab is a research hub on infectious diseases, including COVID-19.

    Doctors.
  • $16.5 million awarded to projects to fight COVID

    MassCPR, a coalition of regional scientific institutions united to fight COVID-19, is awarding $16 million to 62 research projects with the promise to impact patient care within a year.

    An electron microscopy photo of the coronavirus COVID-19.
  • A COVID-19 battle with many fronts

    The Gazette asked alumni who are engaged in the battle against the novel coronavirus to share their experiences and how their work has radically changed.

    Highway scene.
  • Volunteers juice COVID testing at Beth Israel

    An outpouring of volunteers and equipment from the Harvard medical community have helped a Harvard hospital testing lab meet COVID’s challenge.

    Beth Israel's Center for Life Sciences.
  • Battling the ‘pandemic of misinformation’

    Analysts in public health, politics, and technology discuss the “pandemic” of COVID-19 misinformation being shared around the world.

    People looking at smartphones.
  • For Native Americans, COVID-19 is ‘the worst of both worlds at the same time’

    Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.

    Grand Canyon.
  • How far are we from a vaccine? Depends on who ‘we’ is

    Rising nationalism and global inequity will be hurdles to the distribution of COVID vaccines, despite the comparatively “lightning” fast scientific response to the pandemic so far, a Harvard infectious disease expert said Thursday.

    Lab equipment.
  • Real-time data to address real-time problems

    A Harvard-based institute created a tool that harnesses big data to provide up-to-date information to policymakers, to measure the economic downturn.

    Tracker map.
  • Applying wisdom from the Himalayas to the ER’s COVID battle

    Wilderness medicine fellows were among those whose attention has been turned homeward, where they’re pitching in to fight COVID-19 in the ER.

    Himalayas.
  • Intel from an outpatient COVID-19 clinic

    A new report by researchers examines the mostly overlooked, yet important, category of patients — those with symptoms concerning enough to seek care, yet not serious enough to need hospital treatment.

    Person in a mask.
  • Why so many of us are watching films like ‘Outbreak’

    A Harvard expert in ethics and public policy talks about what pop culture says about pandemics, and our reactions to them.

    Dustin Hoffman and Cuba Gooding Jr. in "Outbreak."
  • At the center of the outbreak

    Researcher Katharine Robb details how housing policies affect social and health crises, like the current pandemic.

    Katharine Robb giving presentation.
  • Social distance makes the heart grow lonelier

    Harvard experts suggest using creativity and looking out for others as ways to get over our own loneliness as keeping socially distanced grinds on.

    Man looking out the window.
  • A time of need and a desire to help

    COVID-19 spurs inspiration in student volunteers who find ways to make a difference amid the pandemic’s disruption and loss

    Delivering meals to a hospital in NYC.
  • Brothers create screening tool for refugee populations

    Brothers Hassaan Ebrahim, a student at Harvard Kennedy School, and Senan, a third-year Harvard Medical School student, founded Hikma Health, a nonprofit that builds software for organizations providing health care to refugee populations.

    Man walking between tens in refugee camp.
  • And the survey says, ‘keep it closed’

    A majority of people in the U.S. want to continue physical distancing measures, even as the federal government and some state governors are pushing to reopen the economy, according to a new national survey.

    Closed sign in door.
  • Life at a distance

    How Harvard faculty and staff continue to adapt to social distancing as they stay the course.

    Lisa Albert and Matthew Tuttle at their Zoom wedding.
  • Tracking the coronavirus through crowdsourcing

    How We Feel app helps fill information gaps regarding the spread of the novel coronavirus.

    How We Feel App.
  • From patient to front lines

    Meet Katie Klatt — pediatric intensive care unit nurse, M.P.H. student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and recovered COVID-19 patient.

    Katie Klatt.
  • A day in the life of an ER doc

    Urgent-care physician Anita Chary has turned her attention to treating those suffering from COVID-19 in recent weeks.

    Anita Chary in her PPE.
  • Setting school priorities: Care for children, families first

    In the second episode of Education Now, a new initiative by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, host Richard Weissbourd talks to Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, and Anu Ebbe, principal of Shorewood Hills Elementary School in Madison, Wis.

    Little boys attending to online class from home.
  • CRISPR-based technology spots COVID-19

    The CRISPR-based molecular diagnostics chip’s capacity ranges from detecting a single type of virus in more than 1,000 samples at a time to searching a small number of samples for more than 160 different viruses, including the COVID-19 virus.

    Chip 1.
  • Studying COVID-19 in real time

    How some Harvard professors are integrating the coronavirus crisis into their curricula.

    Daniel Lieberman.
  • Wyss-designed swabs enter human trials for COVID-19

    The Wyss Institute has collaborated in the design of a new low-cost nasopharyngeal swabs that can be manufactured quickly to address the international shortage of swabs for testing and research.

    Nasal swabs.
  • American economy on the bubble

    As governors weigh when to allow businesses to reopen, Harvard faculty discuss which industries have been helped and hurt by the pandemic, and some of the hurdles surviving businesses will face to reverse their fortunes.

    Customer picks up order in Waffle House.